One of my favorite movies is Galaxy Quest. It's about some TV
actors who are abducted into an intergalactic war. Even though
they are hopelessly out-gunned, they succeed against all odds by
holding to their motto, "Never give up! Never surrender!"

As you can imagine, I can really identify with those characters.
The people who are waging this war against us might as well be
space aliens, because they are so out of touch with the Bill of
Rights as well as the expressed will of the voters.

We certainly don't intend to give up or surrender. Steve has filed
an appeal on a number of Constitutional Issues involved in our
case, and has refused to serve any sentence or pay any fines until
this appeal is heard. It's absurd that Placer County would demand
any jail time, since voters (even in Placer County!) solidly
supported no jail for drug offenders when they voted for Prop 36.

The Placer Authorities have issued a no-bail warrant for Steve's
arrest rather than grant a stay until the appeal is heard. I'm
proud of Steve for doing the responsible thing by standing by me
and our two little girls, rather than turn himself over to be
experimented upon by Placer County.

Our appeal will address the issues of police planting evidence,
falsifying evidence, providing false testimony, and false arrest.
These are vitally important issues that must be defended if the
Bill of Rights is to have any future meaning in our society. Steve
and I are prepared to fight this all the way, but we need your
help and financial support in order to do so.

With all of this in mind, let me fill you in on the latest bizarre
chapter in this strange encounter with these Drug War villains:

Three patrol cars filled with officers roared into our friend's
home in Auburn the other morning, to tell them that a warrant for
Steve's arrest and detainment without bail had been issued. Our
friend told the police we were in Canada and the officer seemed
genuinely embarrassed. Even the Sheriff who later called our
friends to apologize for the excessive show of force, claimed that
the bailiff had acted on his own in calling out the troops.

Clearly the Placer officials are confused, embarrassed, and
spooked by Steve's defiance of their authority-Especially since he
is completely outside of their jurisdiction. (See, we never will
give up, nor will we ever surrender!) We have a long way to go
yet, but it starts with Steve saying, "No, I will NOT comply with,
or in any way legitimize, your invasion of my family's home, life
and property."

When we first went to court, we were confident that The
Compassionate Use Act (Prop 215) and the Bill of Rights protected
us. To our horror we found that the law we helped pass in 1996
didn't matter. Asserting our rights under that law, didn't count,
either. Even the Bill of Rights doesn't seem to matter any more in
America.

So folks, the reality is that everything they taught us about our
rights in their government schools is a lie. The Democratic system
of checks and balances, so nicely outlined on the black board, no
longer exists. Even the people's right to throw out bad laws
handed down by the legislature, has been officially outlawed by
the California Supreme Court - (talk about alien ideas!).

Welcome to the Drug War, where you are guilty until proven
innocent. Anything you say, write, or think will be used against
you in a court of law. Police can invade your home on a mere
suspicion and conduct a fishing expedition in search of a crime.
Police can peak through your windows, go through your garbage, and
even listen through your walls. Before you know it, you'll be
facing a jury where Libertarians and people who used marijuana or
advocate its re-legalization are banned.

The people in power have no respect for your rights. They make up
laws and facts as they go along. Yet, Steve and I remain faithful
to the Bill of Rights as an ideal that must be pursued against all
obstacles and tyrants. It is the Bill of Rights, which protects
our unalienable rights, which cannot be taken from us by any law
or government. Steve has the unalienable right to his life. And he
has the unalienable right to grow any God-given herb, and use them
as he sees fit (same for mushrooms, cacti and any other vegetable
matter).

With your help, we will continue to fight louder and harder than
ever. Here in the safe jurisdiction of British Columbia, where the
Canadian Federal Government recognizes Steve's rights as a
cannabis patient, we have a safe harbor from which we can continue
our appeal.

I think it is important to realize that Steve did not run from
Placer County, he turned and faced them. Steve challenged the
court to either put him in jail or free him. They chose to let him
go, but subsequently, Steve has become a fugitive over a mushroom
stem and some cactus buttons, simply because we couldn't afford
competent council. We were, instead, forced to use a Public
Defender who failed us.

Steve had told the Public Defender that he wanted his sentence
stayed pending his appeal. The Public Defender never asked the
court for a stay. So now, we are arraigning to hire a new
appellate attorney to go before the judge and have the bench
warrant reversed, and a stay pending appeal put on Steve's
sentence. Your money is urgently needed to get this bench warrant
reversed so that Steve will no longer be a fugitive from the law.

In my last letter to you, I told you that in July we would find
out if Steve would be put in chains or not. Well, we've avoided
his actually serving any jail time, but he can't travel to
California, so there ends the hope of a Gubernatorial race. We are
exploring other political avenues, and you will hear about them in
another letter. Let me fill you in on what happened on his
surrender date:

Friday July 20th, Steve was supposed to show up for jail in Placer
County. Because the Public Defender who had taken on the case had
not communicated with him in over 10 weeks, we didn't go to
Auburn. We had no guarantee that Placer Counter would give him his
medicine in jail, or a competent attorney to help us sort it all
out.

When a reporter called with the news that Judge Cosgrove had
signed a bench warrant, I found myself in a state of shock over
the idea that there was a warrant issued for Steve's arrest. If he
was to go back to Auburn now, he would be held without bail and
die. If we'd only had enough money to hire a good attorney, all of
this could have been avoided.

How can Placer County force Steve, while he exercises his right to
appeal and doesn't even have competent legal representation, to
choose between being a fugitive or facing certain death? And all
of this is happening, over such trivial and absurd charges?! They
completely lack any compassion or logic; don't they seem more like
aliens all the time?

I also thought to myself, how could they blatantly ignore the
expressed will of the voters in Propositions 215 and 36? The
answer is they can't - not if Steve continues to assert that the
Placer County officials have overstepped their authority and
refuses to cooperate with them. You can help stop them too - give
us the money to hire good legal representation. Steve's appeal
will bring all of this to the forefront. It will ultimately help
all of us.

With this continual drain on our resources, we are at a critical
junction. This is how the criminal justice system forces people to
become wards of the state. When the defendant tries to get
rehabilitated, the criminal justice system continues to come after
them until they fail. Our family is trying to rebuild itself after
taking a hit that no one else has survived up to this point. At
the same time we are trying to establish a business and keep Steve
safe from harassment and healthy. We are also trying to fight this
appeal. We can't do this alone.

Together, we can take this case all the way. To be honest, Steve
and I believed our case itself would make a difference to patients
and law enforcement. It hasn't seemed to. Concessions are being
made all over the place. If Steve and I lived in California now,
we wouldn't be able to grow enough plants to keep Steve alive.

Remember, what is happening in Placer County is happening all over
the country-in fact, we get e-mails from all over the world! This
isn't a fight with Placer County Authorities, but rather it is a
heroic act of defiance against the police state, and this culture
of punishment that we have today.

I urge you to stand with us and support this effort. My husband
has fought bravely on behalf of principles that are important to
all of us. It's outrageous that he should become a fugitive for
want of a few thousand dollars in legal help. I know you have been
generous supporters in the past, but so much is on the line that I
must ask you to give more than ever. We want to win this appeal
and restore the Bill of Rights to this country's criminal justice
system. Don't let good men like Steve Kubby become branded as
fugitives just for lack of proper funding. I ask you to give
generously today so that we will "never give up, never surrender!"

Yours in Liberty,

Michele Kubby

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we'll respond right away.

This seems like a particularly good time in history for new country
projects, considering the fact that the armed force of a whole
superpower is on fire sale (I remember the failure of the Na-Griamel
movement well.) And the US is deliberately keeping the prices low.
First Bush and then Clinton and then I presume Bush II have put
quotas on companies trying to buy the old ICBMs from the ex-SSRs. I
am woefully out of date on this subject. I have vaguely heard of the
Belize project but know nothing of the others. I do know that Beal
Aerospace had successfully negotiated a semi-autonomous zone from
Guyana, but the project folded when Beal decided he couldn't handle
the interference from US export-control authorities. Is there a good
web site on new-country projects? Any other sources of information?
What about the Costa Rican libertarian movement, any chance of it
making Costa Rica into a Switzerland of Central America?

Even though new-country projects sound daunting, they have several
advantages over competing in democratic interest-group politics. One
is that those who pay for the project could benefit (from increased
land values, etc.), leading to more reasonable financing models than
the usual Libertarian electoral politics model "a bunch of poor
libertarian activists will pay for the campaign, and the benefits
will go preferentially to those who oppose us."

Bill Walker <WalkerBill@aol.com>

PS I work in a telomere research lab. Recent results in this field
lead me to believe that we can live to see Libertarian countries
thriving....

With respects to Mr.'s Sorens and Davidson in TLE#133, and the issue
of 'Voting' as a valid decision making process.

Both gentlemen are correct, both pro and con. How can this be?
Because each applies his objection and support in such a way as to
have their "vote" apply in diferent situations.

"Voting", or the use of force by the majority, sucks. It is the use
of force which makes it sucky, not the voting itself. "Voting" as a
decision process works very well indeed where participation is
voluntary, where there is no force used to apply the will of the
majority to the minority.

No vote of the majority can make me want to move to east Africa
without my personal opinion that I would be better off doing so.
Idaho, Oregon, Texas, Beliez or Costa Rica are places where such a
"majority" opinion might count as a greater factor in my decision,
but it is still my decision.

Unanimity works. We don't need "majority rule" to decide where to
attempt Galt's Gulch 2002, because each individual will make that
decision for themselves. I'm very interested in where interested
individuals suggest, because I for one am in a position to go
anywhere at this time in my life. Even Somalia is not out of the
question. New Utopia, Oceania, sure. Why not?

I think both Sorens and Davidson make the most sense with their
mutual agreement: Just Do It. I hope both gentlemen will keep TLE
readers aprised of their efforts so that others can join with them
who can and wish to do so.

"Even if people spend the money on "useless consumer goods" it is
still flowing into the economy and creating jobs but we as
libertarians already know how that works."

Another suggestion for the disposition of the 'Taxpayer's Relief'
check:

I can't think of a better use for my $600 'Prefund' than to use it to
acquire that Springfield .45 I've had my eye on. Always looking for
ways to add to my collection (Oops. I own more than 5 guns so I guess
I will add it to my 'Arsenal'). This action has the added advantage
of really pissing of the leftists, particularly if you drop them a
note and let them know. Even the $300 would get a nice .22 or two and
5,000 rounds of ammo.

Eva Peron said, "Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish
anything." And Rosa Parks and Mahatma Gandhi were called
troublemakers before they were heros. Sometimes visionaries have
to risk everything they value on behalf of their ideals. Even so,
Michael Moriarty's having become an expatriate seems a radical
step until one thinks about the fact that he changed his life to
safeguard all of Americans' rights, the greatest being freedom of
speech.

Prior to a meeting with Attorney General Janet Reno in the Ulysses
S. Grant suite of the Willard Hotel on November 18, 1993, Michael
Moriarty says he was "plugged into the liberal establishment [and]
filled with liberal good intentions." The actor of stage, screen
and television, says he has been transformed by three events:
visiting Florence and seeing the power of individual creativity
exhibited there; meeting his fiancee, Portuguese-born Suzana
Cabrita; and being subjected to threats from Reno of
unconstitutional legislation against the television industry.

Moriarty's protests to his employers, the president, the press and
to Reno over the arrogance with which she treated him and several
television executives resulted his being fired from his four-year
starring role on the police and courtroom drama, Law and Order.
(Attorney General Janet Reno, who urged Congress to pass bills to
curb violence on television, subsequently received a 1994
Jefferson Muzzle Award from the Thomas Jefferson Center for the
Protection of Free Expression.)

Winner of an Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe award and an accomplished
classical jazz pianist and composer, Moriarty moved to Halifax,
Nova Scotia in September 1996 and continues to support himself by
touring with theatrical productions, working as a character actor
in Canadian television and films and in American films, such as
the 1996 drama, Courage Under Fire. He says that the Oklahoma City
bombing precipitated his decision to become an expatriate and
calls it a Reichstag fire, perpetrated by the ATF to justify the
deaths of those killed in Waco, Texas.

Q. In 1994, you were planning a totally independent run for
president. What happened to that?

A. It's still going. I plan to run in 2008. I know that it's going
to take twelve years for people to know who I am and what my
beliefs are, so that I will become a member of the family. There
will be so much material out there on me; they'll know me to the
short hairs. And they'll find out that freedom and honesty are
synonymous. And [they’ll] know what I do and [who I] am, where I
go, and what I drink, and what my sense of humor is, and what
happened to my marriage (because of Janet Reno), whom I love and
why I love. They're going to say — "he's family, I know him to the
core. And I can predict what he'd do." And if the time comes in
history where the particulars demand my personality and who I am
is the right guy for the job, they'll elect me because they can
predict what I'd do. They could predict Churchill, when they
needed him.

Q. Are you interested in using the Libertarian party as a
political vehicle?

A. No, because of their ideology. They're not individualistic. No
individual ever totally agrees with another individual -- that's
what makes life exciting. Each individual is a nation.
Libertarianism is a political ideology that will [publish] a
platform and shit like that. [I want to] honor the individual as a
nation ­ protect his rights, no matter what he thinks, as long as
he doesn't break the golden rule. Life is so simple. You can go to
any basically civilized nation in the world, and you don't have to
read the penal code. You just don't do unto another human being,
what you wouldn't want done to yourself and you ain't going to
break any laws. ...

An article appeared in the Washington Post today regarding King
George III's vacation at his ranch in Texas. The Republican's are
worried that King George III is being viewed as lazy because unlike
his predecessor King William the Pantless, King George is not doing
the people's business (a phrase that causes me to shudder at every
dripping statist mention of it). While the Democrat's charge that
King George is taking a vacation and that he is not working for the
country while at his ranch.

To both sides I reply, Who cares? Government officials should take
more time off. Hell, government officials should take so much time
off that their title only suggests a part time occupation instead of
a full time oppression. Instead of sitting in Washington, DC for nine
months out of the year, they should be doing their own business
instead of sitting in committee and council creating new bureacracies
and burdensome law and meddling in others. The United States is awash
in law. The Statue of Liberty has pulled her skirts up and is wearing
wading boots to avoid the rush of yet another onrush of stinking
statist law. As in the Probability Broach, government should be an
occassional disturbance, not an all to frequent bother. There should
be no permanent government at all and when necessary it should meet
out in the middle of North Dakota in the Winter and the panhandle of
Oklahoma in the Summer. So I say to King George the III, stay in
Texas, don't come back. Let the Senate and House squabble away the
rest of your term, don't sign any legislation, and let Washington, DC
be consumed by the Potomac and returned to the festering swamp it had
been, and fade away from memory from lack of use.

I noted in your Free State Project article in The Libertarian
Enterprise about the hippie plan to take over Vermont, which I've
been following from across the river in New Hampshire since 1977. NH
has historically been a right leaning libertarian state, while
Vermont has been more of a left leaning libertarian state. Here in
NH, we've had an ongoing tussle over funding of education since a
criminal State Supreme Court decision here invented the claim that
our state constitution mandates that every child has a right to an
equal education, and that the state must fund this. NOTE: the state
constitution says no such thing.

Towns that are 'property rich' now pay a huge amount of the
communities property taxes to the state, while poor towns, which have
generally been run into the ground by democrats, get millions in
subsidies from the state to provide an 'adequate education'. A
problem with this is that every town gets to decide how it is to
value the property within the town, so 'poor' towns are preventing
revaluation of real estate to increase their take from the state. The
'rich' towns are as a result now discussing seceding from the state.
This has begun in Newmarket, NH, and is spreading to Rye, NH and
other seacoast communities. The other day, 250 people showed up at a
Newmarket town meeting to seriously discuss issues related to
secession.

I think this is an excellent opportunity for libertarians to
congregate, en masse, in these jurisdictions, become residents, and
help push these coastal communities to independence. This area is
also home to the former Pease Air Force Base, which is now a civil
trade port, and can handle air traffic of any size. It is also home
to Hampton Beach, which is a fine tourist destination with a
boardwalk capable of hosting casino traffic. Portsmouth Bay is a
prime harbor that has been a primary shipbuilding location since
before the Revolutionary War.

Best of all: New Hampshire's state constitution gives the people and
communities the right to secede (this is how Vermont came to be a
state, rather than just a part of New Hampshire.)

I don't know if the following observations have been made before but
in case the have not, here goes...

Much derision is heaped on Pokemon, the game, movies and TV series.
Has anybody really paid attention to it though?

The main characters in the movies and series are Ash who wants to
become the best Pokemon trainer ever, Brock who is a breeder of
Pokemon and Misty who is...well OK I don't know what her gig is but
that is not the point.

The point is all three are young adults-teenagers who do not appear
to be older than 13-14. Why is this important?

Not only are the travelling the length and breadth of their country
they are doing it packing an arsenal of weaponry.

Ash himself has a Pikachu which shoots lightning bolts and is as fast
as a cheetah, think of him as stun gun that can come at you at 50
MPH, Charizard which flies and shoots flames, Squirtle has a water
cannon, Bulbasor has these sharp vine things etc.

Imagine if instead of the show using the fantasy of Pokemon it
actually had the kids walking around with real weapons.

Ash wants to be the best that ever was at practical shooting sports,
Brock is a weapons trader or designer and Misty...again I don't know,
but something weapons related.

Do you think such a show would still be on the air? I don't.

The writers of the show do not have the majority of Pokemon owners
acting irresponibly with their creatures, in fact those that do wrong
are shown being defeated, and humiliated.

My last point (stop cheering!) is a hypothetical. Imagine we all had
Pokemon, maybe one, maybe a half dozen per person, if somebody tried
to use a his Pokemon for evil what would be the result? That's right,
he would not get far. Would this then be a disincentive to the
criminal minded? Of course.

I have been using this show to teach my kids about the value and
morality of being armed, responsible and standing up to evil. They
already know the have the absolute right to fight back, now with the
aid of this show they are being shown what a responsible, well armed
society might look like.

I just got through with Cracking the Liberty Bell, by J. J. Johnson.
Some of you might know Johnson as the editor-in-chief of
sierratimes.com.

Let me just say, I could not put this book down. As gripping
from one chapter to the next as anything Tom Clancy has written, but
a lot less loving of the State. Hell, it could be labeled
"seditionist" by those who would dare. I was blown away by Johnson's
grasp of strategy, tactics, weapons, and small-scale politics, both
on the side of the FBI/BATF/local police, and within the Ohio Militia
movement. Perhaps even more impressive was his ability to
convincingly portray his characters' struggles as they dealt with the
onslaught around them.

Oh, and there's a whole lot of gubmint asskicking!

I gain nothing from promoting this book except knowing that everyone
who does so will be more fulfilled for doing so. By the way, I
finished L. Neil Smith's Hope the week before, and found it
outstanding as well (although everyone beat me to the punch gushing
over that one...).

Cracking the Liberty Bell can be purchased online at the following
link, where you'll also find a one chapter teaser:

In particular this quaint little statement near the end of an
otherwise rather enlightened bit of writing.

"Alas, scientists are now relegating Darwin's theory of evolution to
the trash heap along with Freud's silly complexes and Marx's
collectivist fairy tales."

Oh goodie, I can hardly wait to tell my old paleontology professors,
not to mention all those petroleum geologist who successfully find
oil using the law of fossil succession that Darwin's theory of
evolution has been tossed on the trash heap by "scientists" whoever
that might be.

Not only will we have to invalidate 150 years of geological science
that has worked at predicting locations of oil, gas, minerals, and
contributed to the theory of continental drift, but we are going to
have to break the news to the biologists who have based their entire
science on evolution, also have to tell the bio-engineers, and the
geneticists that everything they know and do is based on a lie. Have
to figure out why all that stuff works, going to wierd us science
types out I tell you.

How silly, look Gail you don't have to believe in evolution it
doesn't make one wit of difference if you don't have the vaguest idea
where that gas you are pumping came from or how it was found.

But please for the sake of my digestion at least avoid quoting
"scientists" for whenever I hear "scientist say" or some such similar
statement, it quite tells me that the bloke making the statement has
not the vaguest idea of what he is saying.

Darwin was right, he may not have known the mechanism or the details
but given the measurements he had to work with he was as right as it
was possible to be right.

But like I said it matters not a wit whether you believe in Darwin's
Theory (its more like a law of science by this point and should be in
the future refereed to as a law not a theory) or that some fairy in
the sky made you and everyone else. We geologists, paleontologist,
biologists, geneticists, and bio-engineers will keep doing what we
do.

A recent letter to the Editor [not the one above - ed.]
questioned opinions expressed in my article "On Mortimer Alder",
specifically my dismissal of Freud and Darwin. I also received a
skeptical email regarding my thoughts on Darwin. I'll respond but I
don't know if I can be brief enough to qualify as a letter to the
editor.

Freud's famous complexes such as the Oedipus and Electra are no
longer considered valid. However, some therapists still use the
psychoanalytic technique even though statistics show that roughly
half of recipients are helped and half are not helped. But some
people love to talk about their "problems"and are willing to pay for
the privilege.

As a preface to discussing Darwin's theory of evolution, let me state
that the history of mankind is strewn with examples of scientific,
medical and philosophical "theories" that where once held in high
esteem only to be rejected in the light of future evidence. And now
even Einstein's theory of relativity is under attack.

I can't help but think that Darwin knew he was engaging in grandiose
thinking when he proposed a theory that would explain the origins of
human life. Indeed he admitted that his arguments for evolution might
not be true science. But, optimistically, he hoped that evidence
discovered in the future would validate his hypothesis. Sadly, such
evidence has never been found.

The last three decades have not been kind to Darwin. Recent
discoveries have done more to negate his theory than support it. The
"missing links" were never found and the gaps between emerging
species are still unexplained. Also the ancestors of many species
have never been discovered. And, during the Cambrian period,
scientist discovered an explosion of life that contradicted Darwin's
theory of a gradual evolution of species.

There is now considerable support among scientists for the "big bang"
theory of life development as well as "quantum-jump mutations".
Darwin's theory is still only a theory and not a very good one at
that if we place credence in thinkers such as Loren Eisley, Thomas
Henry Huxley, Michael Denton, Louis Pasteur, Colin Patterson, John A.
Fleming, Fred Hoyle, Samuel Blumenfeld, Louis Agassiz, Gertrude
Himmelfarb, Hubert Yockley and others.

What about science teachers? What do they believe? A 1997 survey of
science teachers listed in the U.S, Register of Science Teachers
showed that 40% believed in evolution, 41% didn't and 19% were
undecided. In other words, 60% of the teachers responding to the
survey were not convinced as to the validity of the theory of
evolution.

These negative percentages would probably also apply to college
professors and members of the scientific community. The September 16,
1996 issue of Newsweek carried a long article titled "Heretics in the
Laboratory" concerning the surprising number of scientists who no
longer believe in evolution.

Obviously there are still scientists who claim that evolution is a
fact. But scientists have an unusual definition of the word "fact."
We laymen believe that unless something can be proven it is not a
fact. Scientists claim that we can assume something is a fact unless
it is disproved. I know this sounds a little like Bill Clinton's
famous Zen answer, "It depends on what the meaning of is, is". But it
indicates the gulf between laymen and scientists.

However scientists no longer try to defend evolution by reference to
fossil discoveries because so many have turned out to be fraudulent.
Their current rationalizations sound almost as if they are pleading
with us. As one scientist recently said of the theory of evolution,
".with all its faults, it is still the best we have. It is a fruitful
theory, a stimulus to thought and research, and we should accept it
until someone thinks of a better one."

Well "better ones" may have already been proposed and others are
being pursued vigorously by many in the scientific field, many that
can no longer accept Darwin's theory. And their actions as well as
their comments are gradually relegating Darwin's theory to the trash
heap.

Finally a personal note. The letter to the editor incorrectly
addressed me as Ms. Jarvis, an obvious mistake made because of the
spelling of my first name, Gail. This happens frequently and
consequently I usually send a picture along with my articles. But I
am a male and even though I believe in quantum-jump mutations, I have
not mutated into a female, which pleases my wife.

There's only one obvious choice for a libertarian state. Of course,
most people don't even believe it exists and very few could even find
it on a map. However, it's not landlocked and has one of the smallest
populations. Unfortunately, it's currently occupied by looney
left-wingers who are happy to exercise the disproportionate political
power enjoyed by this suburb of Chappaquidick: Rhode Island.

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